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<p>Officials raised our concerns about the route of the separation barrier with contacts
in the Israeli National Security Council, the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of
Defence on 9 July.</p><p>Also on 9 July, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East
(Mr Ellwood), issued a press statement on the Israeli Supreme Court's decision regarding
the barrier.</p><p>The UK position on the Separation Barrier is clear: if Israel wished
to build the Barrier, it should have been built on the 1967 border – and where it
is constructed on the Palestinian side of that border, it is illegal under international
law.</p><p> </p>
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